What happens when we put salt on ice cubes?

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We are Team Endeavour - explanation - Chloe

Who is Team Endeavour and what do they believe?

Hi we are the team Endeavour or we are known as the Endeavour Waka because we are all in the Waka and work as a team. We are all a class of 8 to 10 year olds who have 300 people visit our amazing blog a day. Some of the Team Endeavour kids have their own blog! (Kids Blogs)

In the Team Endeavour we work as a team like we are paddling a Waka. The paddles remind us what we believe.

In one of the paddles we have show respect.  This means we show respect in class. Our second paddle is to give our best.  This means we try to give 100% work. The third paddle is AKO.  This means that we are all teachers and learners.  We teach others. The fourth paddle is know our targets. This means we know our targets all day.  The fifth paddle is be ready to learn. This means we have everything ready for the next learning lesson. The sixth paddle is work as a team. This means we all work together. As you can see, Waka Endeavour is all about working together to get down our learning path.

Team Endeavour is so proud because they get to share their learning with the world and it’s fun to get comments. When we get comments it helps us know our next steps for our learning and get ideas. We can buddy with other classes in New Zealand.  We are proud of all the things that the E-Team puts on their blog and makes us get better at our learning. We can share our Te Reo, learning, home play challenges and especially our writing. Every class should have a blog so you know your next learning steps.

The E-Team Endeavour uses Daily 5 every week day. We have three tasks -  they are read to self, listen to reading and read to buddy. We have anchor charts that help us know what we need to work on and what we need to do.

A very important part of Daily 5 is the cafe board.  This tells us the strategies to use and what our targets are for reading. The parts of the CAFE board are ...

C= comprehension. That means I understand what I read. 

A= accuracy. That means I can read a variety of words.

F= fluency. That means I can read with accuracy and expression. 

E= expand vocabulary. That means I am finding out the meanings of new words. 

So we select good  fit books, we use ‘I Pick’.  That stands for:

I = I pick. 

p = purpose.  That means why do I want to read?

I = interest. That means does it interest me?

C = comprehend. That means do I understand it?

K = know. That means do I know most of the words? 

Daily 5 really helps us become better readers because we read all the time with our nose in the book.  

As you can see the Team Endeavour is a very good class if you want to be a great learner. If you can look on our blog and see what the Team Endeavour is getting up to. (Endeavour Blog)

By Chloe

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Explanation Class model - Introducing Team Endeavour

This is the explanation we wrote together as a class to model the steps.  Our own explanations are just being edited, ready to make into a QR Code movie for our blog.

Hi, we are Waka Endeavour, a group of 8-10 year old children from Springston School in Canterbury, New Zealand, who love learning.  We have an amazing blog where we share our learning and love doing Daily 5.

Team Endeavour work as a team like paddlers on a waka. Our paddles remind us of what we believe and how we try to live.

Our first waka paddle is AKO. That means that we are all teachers and learners from each other.  The second paddle is to know our targets.  We do this in our planners and on the walls.  In writing we highlight our achieved targets.  Our third paddle is to show respect.  This means to look after things and always look at the speaker.  The fourth paddle is to work as a team.  We use the team rules of listen to others, join in, use kind words, help each other and communicate. 

The fifth paddle is to do our best.  This means we work fast, try hard and move away from distractions.  The last paddle is being ready to learn.  This means we get organised before school, have our stationery ready and stop to listen quickly.  Being in the waka means that we are all working together to help each other do our best learning.

In Team Endeavour we have a blog we love because we can share our amazing learning with the world. We share writing, movies, evaluations and photos of the exciting learning that happens in our class.  People from all around the world read the Team Endeavour Blog and leave comments to encourage us to improve our writing.  The blog also helps us be ‘Blog Buddies’ and collaborate with other classes.

As you can see, our class blog is an exciting part of Team Endeavour and we think every class should have one!

Another important part of Team Endeavour is that we do Daily 5.  This is an exciting and effective way to get better at reading and writing.

An important part of Daily 5 is the CAFÉ Board, because it has all the strategies we need to help our reading. The Anchor Charts remind us to start straight away, stay in one spot and read all the time.  During Daily 5 we get to choose our own activities from ‘Read to Self’, ‘Read to Buddy’, ‘Listen to Reading’, ‘Work on Words’ and ‘Work on Writing’. Daily 5 helps us build stamina when we choose ‘Good Fit Books’ and build reading and writing muscles.

In the E-Team, we love Daily 5 because we don’t spend time filling in worksheets but spend all our time reading and writing to build stamina and muscles.

We love learning in the Team Endeavour Waka because we are responsible for making our own learning happen, we get choices and share our exciting learning on an amazing blog.  Make sure you check out what we are up to on our blog and leave us lots of comments.

What's in an explanation?

We are writing explanations this term but how do you know what to put in one? 


Well - we searched for the features in some and made a list to help us.  

Check out our list of success criteria and the notes we make on our examples.  Well done to the class for super team detective work to find all of these.  I know they will really help us write effective explanations!